Aperture 2.0 (YES!) Education Pricing

Strange :
Inside the Canadian Educational store I saw this :
Aperture 2 Upgrade Activation Key- INT
99$

as a followup to my post yesterday (i did say i'd tell ya what i found out)

i bought the academic version of Aperture when it came out (1.0 version) - yesterday i bought the non-academic upgrade serial number - i found out for sure that the upgrade won't work when i tried to enter the new serial (which i figured would happen after reading all these posts).

i'm off to call Apple...

anyone want an upgrade serial number cheap? 🙂

I'm pretty dissapointed. I purchased Apeture 1.5 Education last week over the web site. I received it February 4th and used it. Paid the $149 to find out 2.0 is out this week and there's nothing I can do about it. I would have paid the $199 if I had known. I wish their customer support could do something about it. It was just last week! When I called them they said there was nothing they could do and that I was essentially stuck.

I am on the phone with Apple as I type and I discovered that on the store page for Aperture there is a link for people who bought the program on Jan 1 or more recently to upgrade for 9.95. I'm very happy.

Oh and by the way, I bought it from the Education store.

I looked for that $69 upgrade and I don't see it.
Do you have a link for that,

thanks, John

I believe you can buy the upgrade, but it's not going to work just because it's an education version. I called them about this.

yeah, same old Apple crapple,
wait a few months, maybe they will "iphone" down the price,
or not.

I called apple and there is NO academic upgrade. Academic 1.0 is not upgradeable. You can buy a new academic version 2,0 for $179, $20 off the full price. The "Apple" person suggested I buy a full version so I won't be in the position of not being able to upgrade next time.
Oh, but if you recently bought 1.5, the upgrade is only $9.95 for you, those of us who spent $250 for 1.0 will have to pay $179 - 199. The truth is not pleasant, the answer may be LR.

Adobe's academic price for Lightroom 1.3.1 is $98 and as with all Adobe academic software you an upgrade to new versions by just buying the retail upgrade package

From what I've read, Adobe will treat you the same way. Don't know if it is true as i haven't experienced it myself, but it could be.

I'll tell ya, i've just upgraded my library to 2.0 (paying the full price since i had an academic version before)... and my library is 150gb in size with hundreds of projects and who knows how many images (i'm sure it tells me somewhere, but i'm too lazy to look it up right now)...

and Aperture 2.0 is blazing fast!

finally

i can use this like it is meant to be used!

searches on the entire library take less than 5 seconds! This is as it should be

if i were you, the $ spent on 2.0 would be well worth the amount of time it would take you to convert over to LR.

but that's just me

You may know the answer to another Aperture question. Is there a way to embed metadata into your photos in aperture. I used iView mediapro and loved it because it would do that extremely well and easily. Aperture only does it when you export a master, I think.
thanks

i'm no internals expert, but i believe that you're correct, the metadata isn't in the original file, but is exported with it imbedded.

thanks, as I thought.